This is a good post on Kotlin reified types:
https://kotlinexpertise.com/kotlin-reified-types/
TLDR: when you have generics but also want to access it at runtime.
Discovery Flight
I went on a discovery flight. It was neat sitting in the pilot seat.
Way less tense than flight simulation.
PDF Editing (on Linux)
I used to edit PDFs using GIMP. I would open the PDF in GIMP, make edits, export it as a .mng file, and convert it back.
$ convert -reverse pdf.mng pdf.pdf
This would work well except all the texts were rasterized.
I recently tried editing PDFs using LibreOffice Draw again and was delighted to discover its PDF editing capabilities have improved. Gonna use LibreOffice Draw from now on.
Space Soup Dumpling
I miss soup dumplings and their cosmic deliciousness. Let me know if you find a good vegan recipe.
Nebula background created on GIMP following this Youtube tutorial.
Meet January
Small World
Michael Kremer, friend and ex-manager of our CEO, won the Nobel in Economics last week.
He was a big early supporter of our org and helped start a number of different non-profits in Kenya.
Check him out on NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/15/770455768/of-diet-coke-and-nobel-prizes
Favorite Shirt
Masatia got me this amazing shirt! It’s now my favorite!
